What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[Beerhippie]

My batch of Sodium Citrate (SoCi from now on) has been used for a couple of months now and seems to be getting a bit tired, so I dumped it and went to mix up a batch of home-brew using the 7 gal. pail of citric acid I picked up for $5 at a yard sale a while back. When I bought I asked the gal selling it if it was really citric acid in that nearly-full pail and she assured me it was.

It isn't citric acid. It's corn starch. I guess I'm in the Ooblek business now.

Trust, but verify....

 

[kaymccampbell]

Worked in Tasmota, Zigbee and Berry, writing scripts and learning. Took the Burg out. 7 hours later, returned it.

 

[LeonardY]

Tossed a bunch of **** out.

 

[Jgaz]

Helped a friend begin to move her commercial sewing operation. I guess I should add “good” friend to friend as it was 105+ when we all knocked off.

Brought home this Husky adjustable work table to repair. Only one end moved up or down.

EZ repair. Pretty solid built unit.
The bench in the back of the garage, by the mini split, is full of another project.
This knock down bench location doesn’t get a lot of help from the A/C.
115 when I quit. I’ll finish reassembly tomorrow……early

 

[oldman_pottering]

I guess I'm in the Ooblek business now.

had to look that up, it's bizarre
Is your Citric acid brew for rust removal ?

 

[oldman_pottering]

Worked in Tasmota, Zigbee and Berry

Never even heard of these places

 

[niget2002]

It's important to keep water intake high in these heat conditions!

Meh. Our high today was only 92f. It's barely getting warmed up.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Never even heard of these places

They're very interesting destinations. You can learn a lot about IoT there. I'm trying to insert some premade devices into my own IoT ecology. It has entertainment value, and I'm getting some promising early results.

 

[2001ZR2]

Found my missing flare wrench while rotating the tires and bleeding the brakes.

Of the battery gave up the ghost are I dropped it off to get the A/C evacuated and filled.

 

[LeeG]

Finished this finally.


It was supposed to have been done by last Christmas, but there were....complications. More details on it over on my garage thread here.

Lee

 

[rharman]

Programmed the sprinklers for tomorrow morning. Planning on yard work on Tuesday. Only going to be 82°

 

[oldman_pottering]

You can learn a lot about IoT there. I'm trying to insert some premade devices into my own IoT ecology.

I like reading your posts...........I pretend I'm learning Alien

 

[Beerhippie]

had to look that up, it's bizarre
Is your Citric acid brew for rust removal ?

Yes. Reacting citric acid with a base containing sodium yields sodium citrate, the best rust and corrosion remover I've used.

Never even heard of these places

Strange for a guy from Tinonee--pretty sure they're right in your neighborhood.

 

[Beerhippie]

had to look that up, it's bizarre
Is your Citric acid brew for rust removal ?

Non-Newtonian fluids are, indeed, bizarre.

I fired up the 530 stove now that the temp of the shop is below that of a mid-summer noon in Death Valley:



Pocket rocket lives again!

Now to find it a new home....

 

[four.cycle]

Pocket rocket

errr..... the "pocket rocket" is just a bit smaller than that monster.
great stove. bring your own wind screen.

I only haul the old "Peak 1" model with me as an emergency back-up now.

 

[Beerhippie]

errr..... the "pocket rocket" is just a bit smaller than that monster.
great stove. bring your own wind screen.

I only haul the old "Peak 1" model with me as an emergency back-up now.

I believe that a stove made in 1947 can claim precedence.

Coleman did advertise this model as a "pocket stove". They had big pockets back then.

 

[oldman_pottering]

Reacting citric acid with a base containing sodium yields sodium citrate, the best rust and corrosion remover I've used.

Sounds cheaper than the Evaporust I've been using

 

[Outlawmws]

Sounds cheaper than the Evaporust I've been using

It's way cheaper and lasts far longer.

 

[Beerhippie]

Sounds cheaper than the Evaporust I've been using

$10 US for two pounds, which, when reacted with a sodium-containing base costing a few cents, yields 2 gallons of great rust remover. I finally gave up on the batch I made two months or so ago, after lots of rust removed.

Heat and the ultrasonic cleaner speeds things up a LOT. I'm getting great results from a quick buzz of 1/2 hr in hot solution.

 

[oldman_pottering]

$10 US for two pounds, which, when reacted with a sodium-containing base costing a few cents, yields 2 gallons of great rust remover. I finally gave up on the batch I made two months or so ago, after lots of rust removed.

Heat and the ultrasonic cleaner speeds things up a LOT. I'm getting great results from a quick buzz of 1/2 hr in hot solution.

Thanks, I'll look into it

 

[oldtool77]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

Cleaned up some watched the tube and hung around in here and SFT . Nasty cold rainy day outside .

0 9thoʻ

I had rented a trencher last week to replace our main water line and decided to also trench for downspout drains (70 ft.) and a electrical conduit from the garage to the greenhouse (50 ft.) while I had it here. I managed to finish the main water line and downspout drains between the daily rain storms, but the trench to the greenhouse is now full of water. So, I cobbled together a portable bilge pump today to pump out the trench. Tested it without the hose and it works good, but waiting for some 1-1/8" flex hose to arrive so I can finish the job.



Also opened the package with the Tsunoda flush cutters I ordered a few days ago. Not sure what the instructions say, but I think I can figure them out.

 

[Squez]

Been wrapping rods

 

[Beerhippie]

@Squez: Sweet!

One of the things I did to keep myself in calories and with a roof overhead in college--and for a while after--was build custom rods. Don't know that AI got that fancy, but I did use a lot of St Croix blanks--mostly for myself. Rods for paying customers were generally Sage blanks. I did build a couple of Sage GIIIs for myself--they're all broken now.

I also never had a nice a set-up like yours! My rod stands tended to be cardboard boxes with a notch cut in each end. An elastic hair-tie looped over the blank gave it some tension, and thread tension was from running the thread through a thick book.

St. Croix were bargain blanks (really good blanks--and pretty tough) back in the '80s-90s. I take it they've come up in the world? I built a lot of flyrods for coastal stream salmon flyfishing back then, and used the St. Croix because breaking rods is part of landing salmon on light gear.

 

[Real_PhillBert]

I'm about a week and a half behind on posting, but I hope this still counts.

I Installed floor heat in my new garage, still a lot of work to go before it's ready.

 

[kaymccampbell]

I'm about a week and a half behind on posting, but I hope this still counts.

I Installed floor heat in my new garage, still a lot of work to go before it's ready.

Leaving any bald spots for your lift?

 

[Real_PhillBert]

Leaving any bald spots for your lift?

Not in the attached garage. However we're planning a ~35x55ish shop behind the house where I'd really like to put a recessed scissor lift.

 

[racecougar]

Started building a 4R70W to go behind the 347 I finished up a couple months ago.




Knocked out the tailshaft lubrication mod (drilled/tapped to supply line pressure to the tailshaft bushing.

 

[Jay__Dub]

Got to dig in to a dragging wheel on the f2pos. Doesn't pay to activate an e brake that hasn't been used since Christ was a baby.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Never even heard of these places

I like reading your posts...........I pretend I'm learning Alien

You jest, but Kay happens to run your section of the matrix.

 

[jawstight]

$10 US for two pounds, which, when reacted with a sodium-containing base costing a few cents, yields 2 gallons of great rust remover. I finally gave up on the batch I made two months or so ago, after lots of rust removed.

Heat and the ultrasonic cleaner speeds things up a LOT. I'm getting great results from a quick buzz of 1/2 hr in hot solution.

Got a recipe for that BH? I don't recognize either of the two ingredients you mentioned. (Yes, I'm sheltered)

 

[Beerhippie]

One more time:



The first two bases listed are washing soda and baking soda.

Always add acid to water. Put the citric acid solution in a larger bucket--for two gallons, use a five-gallon bucket. Add the base of you choice sloowly as the reaction can be a bit of a show. Do it outside! The gas released will be CO2 if you use one of the carbonate sodas, H2 and O2 if you use lye--O2 + H2 is explosive, so maybe don't smoke while you're making the solution.

Nice thing about this is that the ingredients can all be food-grade if you use baking soda. Dispose of it when spent by dumping down the drain, or diluting a bunch and spraying it on your lawn as an iron supplement.

 

[Beerhippie]

had to look that up, it's bizarre
Is your Citric acid brew for rust removal ?

Any starch will work.

One of the worst jobs I've had--I've had a few--was night shift cleaning in a potato-processing plant in Washington state. During the day, the floors of the processing room would accumulate several inches of potato starch and we had to clean them. How do you clean up something that's a solid when pushed on, but a liquid when relaxed? Hit it with a pressure washer and it blows up into shrapnel that flies everywhere, then melts when it comes to rest. Scoop it up with a shovel--it comes up in big chunks, but then melts and flows out of the shovel....

I lasted two weeks, IIRC.

 

[rd65]

Took my 5 gallon pail of waste oil and half dozen used oil filters to the dump/recycle place. Stopped by daughter's work to swap vehicles to change her oil. Changed her oil, vacuumed out car (got to try out my new shop vac, attachments are too big for car work it seems), aired up tires, filled various under hood fluids as needed. Filled her tank on the way home from picking it up as the fuel light was on. Turns out the 2019 Durango has a rather large fuel tank.
Dumped my shop garbage and recycling pails. Pulled the Miata back into shop, along with push mower and trimmer for same daughter.

 

[Outlawmws]

Got a recipe for that BH? I don't recognize either of the two ingredients you mentioned. (Yes, I'm sheltered)

One more time:



The first two bases listed are washing soda and baking soda.

Always add acid to water. Put the citric acid solution in a larger bucket--for two gallons, use a five-gallon bucket. Add the base of you choice sloowly as the reaction can be a bit of a show. Do it outside! The gas released will be CO2 if you use one of the carbonate sodas, H2 and O2 if you use lye--O2 + H2 is explosive, so maybe don't smoke while you're making the solution.

Nice thing about this is that the ingredients can all be food-grade if you use baking soda. Dispose of it when spent by dumping down the drain, or diluting a bunch and spraying it on your lawn as an iron supplement.

I use the stuff also. and it works great. I posted my version here late last year as well as a long you tube of a guy that explains his process. and testing of it:

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum...-do-in-your-garage-today.126997/post-10844224

 

[Gangly]

Restocked the garage fridge....

I'm a big fan of the darker beers, and that Founders Breakfast Stout is SOLID!!! I don't drink it too much during the summer, Houston heat makes it hard to drink such heavy beers right now, but that Breakfast Stout gets hunted down in the fall.

 

[Outlawmws]

I use the stuff also. and it works great. I posted my version here late last year as well as a long you tube of a guy that explains his process. and testing of it:

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum...-do-in-your-garage-today.126997/post-10844224

Before and after on a hammer I picked up last Sat - I also did the de-rusting soluiton in a USC I did remove the head from the handle as I've not yet tested the stuff with wood in the equation:

 

[Metallitubby]

I'm a big fan of the darker beers, and that Founders Breakfast Stout is SOLID!!! I don't drink it too much during the summer, Houston heat makes it hard to drink such heavy beers right now, but that Breakfast Stout gets hunted down in the fall.

If you can find it, give Terrapin Wake 'N Bake a try. Similar to the Founders Breakfast.

*Relating to garage, I unloaded the race car, and related items from this weekend's race back into the shop from the Mighty Ridgeline.

 

[Skyman]

Same old story when your own 6 carbed bikes. I hate carb work.

I got so sick of cleaning out the pilot jets in the Mikuni carburetors on my Yamaha, that I sold the damned thing and have ever since - and forever will be - glad it's gone. If I let that bike sit for more than a coupla weeks, I could be certain it wouldn't fire on both cylinders until I got into those carbs again to clean out the jelled, ethanol-laced, fuel. The more times it happened, the longer the bike sat unused, and the more stupid it seemed to continue having it taking up space.

 

[Skyman]

Discovered what I thought was a 16' trailer is only a 14'. Not sure why I've always thought it was a 16...

Did ya measure the boat?

 

[Old Man Roger]

Did ya measure the boat?

Atleast 876 times.